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Most popular news on 10 July 2009 |
French tourists seen as world's worst: survey
Reuters - French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as bad at foreign languages, tight-fisted and arrogant, according to a survey of 4,500 hotel owners across the world.
Levi Johnston talks about Palin's resignation
AP - The former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter says he thinks he knows why the Alaska governor is resigning — concerns over money.
Health care overhaul suffers another setback
AP - The drive to remake the nation's health care system suffered yet another setback in Congress on Thursday when a pivotal group of House Democrats demanded changes in legislation the leadership was drafting on a fast track.
Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault
AP - Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.
Jackson children were well prepared for spotlight
AP - Even Michael Jackson knew the masks and veils would have to come off one day.
LAPD: Michael Jackson's drug history to be probed
AP - Detectives investigating the death of Michael Jackson are looking at his prescription drug history and trying to talk with his numerous former doctors, the Los Angeles police chief said Thursday.
Worst violence since US pullback hits Iraq
AP - Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents.
Ensign's parents gave mistress's family $96K
AP - Sen. John Ensign said Thursday his parents gave his mistress and her family nearly $100,000 "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during a difficult time," providing his first public acknowledgment that the woman received payments tied to the affair.
"Harry Potter" stars felt pressure to "ace" kiss
Reuters - "Harry Potter" stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint felt the pressure of millions of fans of the boy wizard series when they recently filmed a highly anticipated kiss between their characters Hermione and Ron.
Jackson 'riddled' with needle marks: reports
AFP - Michael Jackson's body was riddled with needle marks when he died, indicating possible use of a powerful sedative at the center of the investigation into his death, US media reported Wednesday.
State e-mails detail SC gov's Argentina plans
AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford pushed for a packed schedule but wanted to keep an evening free on the taxpayer-funded trip to Buenos Aires where he says his friendship with an Argentine woman turned physical, e-mails released Thursday show.
AP sources: Burris won't run for full Senate term
AP - Sen. Roland Burris, whose deep ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seemed to doom his Senate tenure from the start, will not run for a full Senate term in 2010. The move increases Democrats' chances of holding on to the former Senate seat of President Barack Obama.
4 Ill. cemetery workers accused in grisly plot
AP - Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday. All four were charged with felonies.
El Nino conditions return to affect weather
AP - El Nino is back.
They Saved Michael Jackson's Brain!
E! Online - What do Michael Jackson and Albert Einstein have in common...besides pure genius? Both their brains are in a glass jar?at least for the time being.
Woman jailed after man complains about her cooking
AP - A southwest Florida woman was arrested after deputies said she assaulted her 71-year-old common-law husband after he complained about her cooking. A Lee County Sheriff's Office arrest report shows 66-year-old Meredith Hart Mulcahy was charged with battery on an elderly person Tuesday night.
Patricia Arquette dismisses divorce case
AP - Patricia Arquette and Thomas Jane will remain married.
2 men and a mediator: Can Arias help Honduras?
AP - Talks to resolve the leadership crisis in Honduras began without a breakthrough Thursday, as both rivals emerged from meetings with a mediator showing no signs of relinquishing their claims to the presidency following a divisive coup.
Thousands protest in Iran, defying crackdown vow
AP - Thousands of protesters streamed down avenues of the capital Thursday, chanting "death to the dictator" and defying security forces who fired tear gas and charged with batons, witnesses said.
Paris Jackson: Impromptu or Planned?
E! Online - No doubt Paris Jackson loves and misses her King of Pop papa, but did she really want to tell the world how she felt at Tuesday's memorial service?
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